OK I know this is grinding the world's tiniest axe but the lack of even discussions of heads rolling at the Pentagon right now is another obvious demonstration that "elite overproduction" theory is nonsense and you should substitute "elite underproduction" wherever you see it.
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Replying to @TristanSevers @CovfefeAnon
A society with elite overproduction might be reluctant to allow fellow elites to pay the price for stunning, humiliating failure. Only a few commit sex crimes but they're almost all grossly incompetent.
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Replying to @MacarthurMax @TristanSevers
A society with elite *over*production would be in a cutthroat competition to burn them over any failure so the competing elites could get the newly freed-up positions. It's hilariously wrong We have the exact opposite problem. Fewer competent, intelligent men and more sinecures
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @TristanSevers
Yes but they're all AWARE that there are many competitors. Those at the top of the media, govt, military, academia want to keep their jobs, they circle the wagons and blame the Afghans. What happened in GFC? No mass sackings. COVID? Fauci still around, Cuomo survived...
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Yes, we agree on the facts - no one in elite circles ever suffers consequences for failure. Saying that this is somehow caused by increased competition for those roles is absurd.
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